Word: casketful
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Just before dawn, an ambulance drew up to the White House portico, and U.S. servicemen carried Kennedy's casket into the East Room. On a blackshrouded catafalque, John F. Kennedy lay in state. His sleepless wife viewed him for the last time, and then the bier was sealed...
Soon, a white Cadillac hearse drew up before the entrance and a simple bronze casket was taken inside the hospital. Jackie removed the wedding band from her left hand and slipped it on the President's finger, and then the casket was closed...
...Kennedy wanted to return immediately to Washington. The casket, with Jackie walking alongside, her hand on its burnished surface, was carried outside. At Dallas' Love Field, the presidential plane was waiting...
Johnson did what he could to help Jacqueline, discovered that she wanted only one thing: to remain at the side of her husband's bronze casket in a rear passenger compartment. There, crewmen had hurriedly removed two rows of seats to provide space. Four White House aides-Kennedy's longtime friend Dave Powers, his Air Force Aide Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, O'Brien and O'Donnell-sat with...
When the aircraft landed at Andrews at dusk, the MATS terminal was blazing with floodlights. President and Mrs. Johnson waited inside while a yellow cargo lift lumbered out to the plane's rear door. Uniformed pallbearers struggled to shift the heavy casket from the plane to the lift. Robert Kennedy met Jackie at the door, helped her to the ground. Officials motioned Jackie toward a black Cadillac, but she insisted on staying with the casket. She got into a grey military ambulance, refused to sit in front, climbed in back near her husband's body. Bobby joined...